Period 112SITES OF MEMORY

Birutė: "It was a long time ago...When in 1955 I‘ve settled down in Kaunas together with my parents and saw the sculptures of lions in the Garden of the War Museum, I was so surprised.

Alvydas Vaitkevičius: A note on the monument of Salomėja Nėris: I remember it standing there.

Judita: ”I had many photos in the ghetto house.

Gintaras Vitulskis: The first victory.

Alma: Some time ago, this university was called Kaunas Polytechnic Institute and the campus was built only around 1975.

Eugenija: "I remember, when they destroyed Stalin’s monument.

Pastor Vladimiras Sereda: "/.../ In 1980, I came to Lithuania with my wife after our wedding. As people of faith, we were looking for some community.

Alma: It is very nice to remember how people would gather in the Oakwood Park.

Kęstutis: "We were living at Gričiupio Street, where the current KTU student campus is located.

Mindaugas Kavaliauskas: It was a rally to support the Act of March 11 and show our unity.

Alvydas (50): When my then-future wife was studying in Kaunas Polytechnic Institute, we would often walk around the Oakwood Park...

Gintaras: Posters started to appear in Kaunas, just like in Vilnius, after the bloody events of January 13.

„Ne kiek to baisiausio žmonijos istorijoj karo Tadas ir beprisimena – keli paveikslai, ir tie neaišku, ar paties prisiminimai, ar vėliau išgirsti žmonių pasakojimai, pavirtę prisiminimais, keli pablukę vaizdai: vienas iš Kauno, antras iš Vilniaus, trečiasis iš Veprių.

Raimonda Pauzienė (51): [In Juozas Naujalis Music School] everyone was trained to be a musician.

Lili Kristina Vaičekauskaitė-Čepauskienė: If someone is collecting historical material, there is an interesting episode.

Tadas Ivanauskas High School

Audronė: „Namas priklausė Zabielų rūmams. Ir pats namas – dabar jis supaprastintas – buvo labai įdomus, ypač architektūra apačioje, visur – skliautai, didžiuliai praėjimai, sraigtiniai laiptai.

Petras Vileišis Square (or Smėlynė, as it was called by the residents of Kaunas) was a place famous for horse racing.

Konstantinas: “My childhood passed here, about 80 years ago.

Lili Kristina Vaičekauskaitė-Čepauskienė (2014): We would often play in Miesto Sodas.